The three major spokesmen for Ayn Rand’s Philosophy, Objectivism went full-on blind when Donald Trump appeared last year. They still haven’t regained their sight as they continue to oppose President Trump.
LEONARD PEIKOFF
Named by Ayn Rand herself as her intellectual heir in a fit of pique after she was rejected by her younger lover Nathaniel Brandon, Peikoff sort of went into an intellectual cave and passed the judgment of Donald Trump to Yaron Brook, ex-Mossad.
YARON BROOK
Brook currently serves as the president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, a non-profit organization in Irvine, California that promotes the novels of Ayn Rand and her philosophy of Objectivism.
Yaron Brook was born and raised in Israel (by parents who were Jewish socialists from South Africa). A friend lent him a copy of Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged when he was sixteen, leading to his embrace of Objectivism. He served as a First Sergeant in Israeli military intelligence (1979–1982) and earned a BSc in Civil Engineering from Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa (1986). In 1987, he moved to the United States, where he received his MBA and PhD in finance (1989, 1994) from the University of Texas at Austin.
Brook claims the West isn’t at war with terrorism, but the ideology of Islamic totalitarianism. He repeatedly says that just like in World War II, America wasn’t at war against Japanese Kamikaze pilots or German tanks, but the ideas of Nazism and Japanese Imperialism.
Yaron however gets Trump wrong: “He has crazy views on many issues. Particularly on immigration, on illegal immigrants, I think his views are nutty. … His stuff on trade is nutty. He’s not a free-trader. Indeed Donald Trump is not a capitalist. He doesn’t believe in freedom, he doesn’t believe in capitalism. Donald Trump is a statist. … He’s somebody who’s made his wealth by using eminent domain. He’s made his wealth often by playing the legal system to his advantage in ways that are borderline immoral if maybe illegal. He is a bombastic, crude human being who should not be president of the United States.. . .ultimately Americans will reject him.”. . . How wrong was/is Brook? HERE.
DAVID KELLY born June 23, 1949 in Shaker Heights, Ohio is an American philosopher, author, and advocate of Objectivism, though his position that Objectivism can be revised and influenced by other schools of thought has prompted disagreements with other Objectivists. He is also founder and senior fellow of The Atlas Society.
These three men are opposed to President Trump supposedly because Donald Trump doesn’t meet what they believe is Ayn Rand’s criteria for president. All three are massively wrong.
The point of Ayn Rand’s character Howard Roark is: he chooses his own set of independent standards. He is ruled by a compulsion to make money in real estate, to win, to win over opponents. Donald Trump is far more than Howard Roark who was a fictional character meant to illustrate how the correct strengths of character, the correct virtues and values will lead to a moral life.
Rand’s characters were not driven to excel in deals. Donald Trump is. Trump has almost no connection to the fictional characters in Rand’s or any other authors fictional novels. Donald Trump excels in real life. He makes deals that make him lots of money. That’s not even a consideration for Rand or her novels.
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